Tiny teeth tell of hobbit evolution, according to a report in New Scientist 6 March 2013. The Hobbit, is the nickname given to an extinct species named Homo floresiensis that is claimed to be a dwarf human by some anthropologists. However, its teeth and brain size are disproportionally small for a typical human dwarf. So […]
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Stone Tools Increase Hobbit Age
Stone tools increase Hobbit age, according to reports in ScienceNOW 17 March 2010 and ABC (Australia) News in Science 18 March 2010. In 2004 the bones of a creature nicknamed the Hobbit were found in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Even though it had a chimp sized brain and ape-like body size […]
Putting a Foot in a Hobbit Mouth
Putting a foot in a Hobbit mouth reported in BBC News, American Museum of Natural History and ScienceDaily, 6 May 2009, and Nature, vol 459, p81 7 May 2009. Ever since the bones now nicknamed “the Hobbits” were found in a cave on the island of Flores, anthropologists have argued about whether they were dwarf […]
More Hobbit Bones Found
More “Hobbit” bones found, as reported in Nature vol 437, p1012, 13 October 2005. Scientists excavating a cave on the Island of Flores in Indonesia have found a jaw bone, two arm bones and a shin bone that belong to Homo floresiensi. The new jaw is very similar to the first jaw in that it […]
Hobbits Not Human
Ever since the bones nicknamed the Hobbits and scientifically named Homo floresiensis were found in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores anthropologists have argued about whether they were diseased dwarf humans or some kind of primitive human ancestor. Debbie Argue, an Anthropologist at Australian National University, and colleagues have carried out a study […]
Hobbit Wrist Bones
Hobbit wrist bones confirm creation research prediction. A study of the wrist bones of Homo floresiensis, otherwise known as “the Hobbit” was reported in BBC News Online 20 September 2007, ABC News in Science and Science vol 317, p1743, 21 September 2007. Since the bones of this creature were found on the Indonesian island of […]
Hobbit Wars Hot Up
Hobbit wars hot up following an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, published online 23 August 2006, and reported in ScienceNOW 21 August 2006, news@nature and Geotimes 25 August 2006. Indonesian anthropologist Teuku Jacob of Gadjah Mada University and colleagues have studied the skull and leg bones of the Homo floresiensis (nicknamed […]
Homo floresiensis not a Malformed Human
Homo floresiensis is not a malformed human, according to reports in ScienceDaily 21 April 2017 and Journal of Human Evolution doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.02.006 April 2017. Scientists from Australia and USA have carried out the “most comprehensive study on the bones of Homo floresiensis” (commonly called Hobbits), to work out where they fit in the human evolutionary […]
Homo naledi Ten Times Younger
Homo naledi ten times younger, according to reports in New Scientist 25 April 2017 and BBC News, 27 April 2017. The bones named Homo naledi were discovered deep in a cave in South Africa in 2013. At the time Lee Berger, who led the team that studied the bones, claimed they could be up to […]
Another Ape Man “May Be Ousted from the Human Family”
Another ape-man “may be ousted from the human family”, according to Science News 23 April 2017. In 2010 a “remarkably complete” skeleton of Australopithecus sediba found in Malapa, South Africa, dated as 1.98 million years old, was proclaimed as “best candidate” for a direct human ancestor. Palaeoanthropologists Bill Kimbel of Arizona State University and Yoel […]